Fresh Air — Análise de anúncios do podcast
168 episódios analisados
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8.5 anúncios/episódio
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Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries. Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org. You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including weekly bonus episodes and curated playlists of archive interviews from Fresh Air.And subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Fresh Air Weekly, to get interview highlights, staff recommendations, gems from the archive, and the week's interviews and reviews all in one place. Sign up at www.whyy.org/freshair
PodSkip has analyzed 168 episodes of Fresh Air, averaging 8.5 ads per episode (7% of runtime).
Best Of: Mahershala Ali / Writer Yiyun Li
Oct 17, 2026
In his new film, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father and hit man whose life is upended when he suddenly has to care for his children…
Fresh Air Best Of: John Lithgow / Sondheim's Tumultuous Life Review
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Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
Oct 16, 2026
The actor Eva Marie Saint died last week at age 102. She won an academy award for her first film role in On the Waterfront opposite Marlon Brando, and in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest she…
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Inside the Musk/Bezos space race
Oct 15, 2026
Atlantic staff writer Josh Tyrangiel says Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites -- but their only real competition is each…
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Why the Arctic is a new source of global tension
Oct 14, 2026
As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of super-power competition. Writer Rana Foroohar spoke with Dave Davies about the stakes. Her book is in…
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After losing her sons, Yiyun Li learned to ‘suffer better’
Oct 13, 2026
If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.Li’s teenage sons both died by suicide six years apart, Vincent in 2017…
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Mahershala Ali
Oct 12, 2026
In his new action thriller, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father and hit man whose life is upended when he suddenly has to care for his children on his…
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A John Prine Appreciation
Oct 09, 2026
Prine, who died in 2020, would’ve turned 80 this weekend. A five-day event in and around his native Chicago is underway, including a tribute concert. The beloved folk singer-songwriter spoke with…
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Veteran White House reporter April Ryan’s ‘Blacklash’
Oct 08, 2026
Ryan has spent decades pressing presidents for answers. She talks about access, power, race and how asking questions put her in President Trump's crosshairs. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about her…
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How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military
Oct 07, 2026
New York Times military and Pentagon reporter Greg Jaffe says Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has disproportionately blocked promotions of Black and women senior officers, and he’s also been…
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‘Showbiz!’ entertainer Murray Hill became what he didn’t see
Oct 06, 2026
Murray Hill's character on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, Fred Rococo, is a soil scientist trans man who hosts a queer cabaret. “[He] is me dialed down to like a 2,” he tells Terry Gross. In real life…
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Michael Douglas
Oct 05, 2026
Michael Douglas is one of the most recognizable actors of our time, but in 1987, many still knew him as Kirk Douglas's son. That year, he starred in Fatal Attraction and Wall Street, and his role as…
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Best Of: Kyle MacLachlan / Inside the ‘romance scam’
Oct 03, 2026
Kyle MacLachlan was just 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune. The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. “The worlds that [Lynch] creates…
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Celebrating minimalist composer Steve Reich
Oct 02, 2026
Often called one of the fathers of minimalist music, Reich created a vocabulary that has influenced nearly every form of music: Classical, electronic, jazz, and pop. To commemorate his 90th birthday…
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Sheryl Crow
Oct 01, 2026
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has a new album, Pick You Up, out Oct. 9. She spoke with Fresh Air guest interviewer Sam Fragoso (Talk Easy) about touring with Michael Jackson in her 20s as a…
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New drones, deadlier attacks: Dystopian reality in Ukraine
Sep 30, 2026
Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist, is just back from her fourth visit to Ukraine. She says Russia has ramped up production of missiles and deadly drones, while Ukraine is…
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Mahmoud Khalil’s 104 days in ICE Detention
Sep 29, 2026
Khalil was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and fled the country at 18. He had a green card to be in the United States, and had become one of the most visible faces of the pro-Palestinian…
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Kyle MacLachlan was David Lynch’s ‘submersible’ into dark places
Sep 28, 2026
MacLachlan was just 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune. The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. “The worlds that [Lynch] creates are…
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Best Of: Rhiannon Giddens / Investigating Diddy’s Rise & Fall
Sep 26, 2026
Rhiannon Giddens doesn’t usually make pop music, but she wrote and played the banjo riff on Beyoncé’s country single, “Texas Hold ‘Em.” She comes from the Black string band tradition, is the artistic…
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Bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings
Sep 25, 2026
The Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist has one foot in traditional bluegrass and another in improvisational jam music. He has a new album, So Much for Goodbyes, inspired by his late…
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Investigating the system that protected Sean “Diddy” Combs
Sep 24, 2026
Sean Combs founded Bad Boy Records and spent three decades as one of the most powerful men in hip hop. Now he's serving a federal prison sentence. Rolling Stone reporter Cheyenne Roundtree spent…
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Global power, rivalry, and A.I.; a preview of the U.S./China summit
Sep 23, 2026
As President Trump and China's President Xi prepare to meet tomorrow, Rush Doshi of the Council on Foreign Relations explains the current state of US-China relations and what to expect from this…
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Inside the 'modern slavery' where cyber scammers are victims themselves
Sep 22, 2026
WIRED’s Andy Greenberg explains how a cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia trapped computer engineers into defrauding victims of billions of dollars. Plus he discusses the scam involving Fresh…
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Rhiannon Giddens traces the banjo from her ancestors to Beyoncé
Sep 21, 2026
A self-described "folkie to the bone," Giddens talks with Terry Gross about channeling her ancestors through her instrument, playing on Beyoncé’s country single “Texas Hold ‘Em,” and a connection…
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Best Of: Colin Kaepernick / Danielle Brooks
Sep 19, 2026
10 years ago, former 49ers NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to protest police violence against Black people. After the season ended, he never played in the NFL…
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Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones / Remembering singer Cassandra Wilson
Sep 18, 2026
The new film Coyote vs. ACME is based on the classic Warner Bros. cartoons featuring the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote. Today, we listen back to Terry’s 1989 interview with animator Chuck Jones. He…
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The Roy Cohn Playbook, from McCarthyism to Trump
Sep 17, 2026
In a biography of Roy Cohn, Kai Bird looks at how the lawyer taught President Trump to deny, delay, attack, sue and countersue, never admit defeat, side step paying bills and avoid a paper trail. His…
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Is Jared Kushner a 'walking conflict of interest'?
Sep 16, 2026
Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker staff writer Dexter Filkins says while Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is a U.S. special envoy negotiating peace, he's also working on private business deals…
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Actor Danielle Brooks has blessings to count
Sep 15, 2026
Brooks grew up in a church where her mom was a minister and her dad a deacon. She went on to play Taystee in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Now she co-stars in the indie film If I Go…
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Colin Kaepernick is still fighting – for justice and for his football career
Sep 14, 2026
It has been 10 years since former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, in protest of police brutality against Black people. Once the season ended, Kaepernick…
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Best Of: Life in the Mojave Desert / Director of ‘The Uprising’
Sep 12, 2026
Author Claire Vaye Watkins lives in the Mojave Desert, just like the protagonist in her new novel, Yellow Pine. In the book, it’s an area being developed by an energy company, wreaking havoc on the…
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